a certain senator, joe biden in 2007 said, i'm going to impeach president bush. >> in fact, george w. bush in the iraq war did go to the security council. everyone remembers colin powell holding up the alleged evidence. he went to the security council, did get authorization. obama knows that he can't go to the security council because russia would veto it. so he is either just going to ignore all of the prior precedent or come up with some sort of authorization that we haven't seen yet. >> i sometimes wonder if it comes down to what imminent threat to the country means. if another country, say syria, and that's why i said, is this really our business, if the threat was in syria is a threat to its people, is it a threat to our people and i suppose you could say, a thin argument would be the president could suggest destabilization in the middle east could affect us. >> there are lots of good lawyers in that administration and they could certainly make that argument. >> ah, you being one of them at one point. former federal prosecutor. jeffrey toobin, thank you. >>> an historic day is b